Hi there! I’m Brooke.
I’m all about creativity, climate, and learning more about what I don't know.
When I was 8 years old, I bought my first sketchbook and charcoals and I’ve been creating ever since. With my curiosity and independence, I was always on a path towards self-employment, selling my creations about as soon as I started drawing. At the age of 20, I started my first business, a secondhand clothing store with a focus on sustainable practices and responsible clothing disposal. Ever since then, it’s been a headfirst dive into the sustainable fashion industry with a specialization in digital marketing and content creation alongside business ownership.
Areas of Specialization
Fine Art: Portraiture, Oil Painting, Sewing
Writing: Editorial, Essays, Education, & Poetry
Digital Marketing & Branding
Social Media & Content Creation
Curiosities & Questions
What do we owe each other?
What are we willing to opt out of for the sake of others?
What role can art play in social change? How can we integrate art into our everyday experiences?
How can we communicate more effectively about the changes we need to make and invite more people into conversations and participating (climate, sustainable fashion, compassion)?
What can we do with all of the clothing excess that culture doesn’t value as we wait for textile recycling tech to catch up?
The Fun Stuff
Current read - Look: Poems by Solmaz Sharif
Favorite art styles - Abstract Expressionism, Surrealism, Contemporary Portraiture, and Figurative Work
Favorite poets - William Stafford, David Whyte, Ada Limón
Favorite podcasts - On Being with Krista Tippett, If Books Could Kill, Diabolical Lies
Press
“You stand before beginnings. I would like to beg of you, dear friend, as well as I can, to have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day. Perhaps you are indeed carrying within yourself the potential to visualize, to design, and to create for yourself an utterly satisfying, joyful, and pure lifestyle. Discipline yourself to attain it, but accept that which comes to you with deep trust, and as long as it comes from your own will, from your own inner need, accept it, and do not hate anything.”